The threat of nuclear war. Became partially obsessed with the prospect, not helped when I'd read that Hailey's comet always brought doom and gloom so I'd semi convinced myself that when it turned up in 1986 it would be bringing nuclear Armageddon with it.

Death's Head wrote:The threat of nuclear war. Became partially obsessed with the prospect, not helped when I'd read that Hailey's comet always brought doom and gloom so I'd semi convinced myself that when it turned up in 1986 it would be bringing nuclear Armageddon with it.

There was no nuclear war in 1986

Ah yes, this too. I watched The Dead Zone and was convinced it was happening.

Death's Head wrote:The threat of nuclear war. Became partially obsessed with the prospect, not helped when I'd read that Hailey's comet always brought doom and gloom so I'd semi convinced myself that when it turned up in 1986 it would be bringing nuclear Armageddon with it.

There was no nuclear war in 1986

Ah yes, this too. I watched The Dead Zone and was convinced it was happening.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:The film adaptation of The Witches will haunt my nightmares until I am no more.

A thousand times this. One of my cousin's still makes fun of me now.

The opening scene of Ghostbusters and the "Wiiiiiiiinnnnnston" scene from Ghostbusters 2. And Vigo, obvs.

Mainly ghost gooseberry fool too, I used to get this uneasy feeling that I was being watched. The Women in Black is basically my fears the film as I always used to feel like someone was looking at me through the window. Even now I'm not entirely comfortable being by myself in the house at night.

On the same note I really struggled watching horror films alone, I just get too into whatever I'm watching.

Poser wrote:Farms. There was a famous/notorious public awareness film about farm safety that they showed in our school.

It features a group of kids who die, one by one, in horrific ways on a farm. One of them is a graphic scene of a kid who drowns in slurry.

I was eight years old. It was genuinely horrifying.

Fake edit: it was called Apaches, and you can see the whole thing here. Honestly, we were eight. What the strawberry float were they thinking?

Those government information films were terrifying. A day didn't go by in the 70s where I wasn't convinced I'd be electrocuted by a pylon or chopped up by farm machinery or accosted by some pervert (or Jim'll fix it as it's now known)

When I was a child I loved a program called “round the twist” (the theme tune is now stuck in my head, and yours if you have ever seen it) but one episode I remember this really terrifying scarecrow that really did give me nightmares

With a little googling I found this and it’s still rather scary, I remember it chasing them and all this in an afternoon children’s show